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also kind of unrelated but because of this stupid subreddit im actually not as bad at identifying flags

It directly serves the interests of oppressive power structures to set marginalized people at each others’ throats over who is stealing from who instead of relating to each other and thus helping each other. It feeds a simplistic understanding of privilege where no one has overlapping marginalizations or benefits from comparing aspects of their own experiences. It suggests that every kind of harm is completely independent and could never be understood in relation to other harms, which stops us from getting at the roots of harmful systems. It is evil and it is malicious and it is bullying masked as activism.

Kids who realize that they can’t live the lives their parents envision for them, and can’t tell their parents the truth without risking bodily harm, have a great deal in common with each other no matter what specific lie they are living. It is entirely a positive thing for those kids to feel solidarity with the entire vast broad community of people with similar problems. Is being trans at all the same thing as being gay? No. But is it useful to have a word that applies to both experiences? Hell yes. In this thread there were dozens of LGBT+ atheists who said that coming out as an atheist was much harder than coming out as LGBT+. There are also LGBT+ people who found it much easier. Do you know how you navigate something like that? You give everyone access to solidarity. You say “we have things in common, let’s fight for each other”.

You don’t say “how dare you have the nerve to compare /your/ experience of being kicked out of your home and disowned by your parents at the age of 14 to my experience of being kicked out of my home and disowned by my parents at the age of 14.” No one benefits from that. Literally no one.

As for the idea that it’s ~bad politics~ to suggest that being LGBT+  is a choice, guess what? Some people choose to be trans. Some people choose to be gay. Some people do think of their sexuality or their gender identity as a choice, and that is okay, because the actual fundamental point is that there isn’t anything wrong with it. It’s not okay to tell people that feeling like their identity is political or is a belief is an evil and malicious act against you.

It keeps those communities from noticing that, together, we outnumber the conservative authoritarians BY A LOT. But since the media focuses on only counting Lesbians vs Evangelicals; Gays vs Evangelicals; Trans People vs Evangelicals; Atheists vs Evangelicals; Polyamorous Ppl vs Evangelicals; Democratic Socialists vs Evangelicals, etc… they get to hold onto the illusion that they’re either in the majority, or just barely outnumbered by “those freaks.”

Skyrim shopkeeper, processing a transaction: I wonder what the Dragonborn's up to

Apollo, twin sister to Artemis, has seen her at least once a week for 4,000 years:

ares:

Persephone, who has seen her husband cry secret tears of Manly Anguish every time she has to go live with her mother for six months:

Dionysus:

I’m 35 now. Also here’s the original doodle

You need something like this:

Apparently the original Artist is Max Raabe

They do their own thing but do have a few covers…

Oops I did it again…

Well, I recently learned something that makes that story even better.  Most clay tablets from that time period were made of unfired clay, which means that they degraded over time, getting washed away by weather and such.  Some of the fired tablets were fired on purpose, but others were fired accidentally when the building they were stored in were burnt down.  

Hal 9000 (domesticated)

The slab

Gas cans

Precambrian little guy

Nintendo wii

adding to the post

hello????

Slab II

google home lookin

C O N E

roomba!!

PRISM

and ouchie

Watering can

Tree trunk

(My personal favorite) ball bearing

W H A T ?

Is peacock!

Starship Enterprise

The Ring

heartbreaking doctor who moments ♢ vincent hearing his worth